DERBYSHIRE TAPESTRY. II7 



likelihoode of their returne into this contrey, Mr. Digby being 



vnwilling to depart with them She (tlie Queen) lykyth 



her awne lodging heere well ; but better she wolde lyke it if it 

 were hangid with better hangings than these late my L. Paget's, 

 being vnsewtable and vnlymed. Her majesties be too deep for her 

 romes by almost the half, and tlierfore desyrith to have some other 

 from her majestie. Her chambre is but IX foote deepe from the 

 reason or wallplace, being seeled vnder the rafters as a pavillion 

 roof, and for the reasons overhead ar stretchid some of her 

 majesties large hangings. VHI or IX peeces will serue to hang 

 that chambre, and so many other as will make XXXIII foote, 

 being all the length of her chambre on one syde, with a returne 

 from the chimney : that syde hath no timber." * 



Happily a memorandum of the supply sent by Queen Elizabeth 

 to her unhappy cousin at Tutbury has been preserved. It is 

 headed : — " 20th of January xxvii Elizab. Wardrobe stuff sent 

 to Tutbury Castell by Rafe Rowlandson, Groom of the Removing 

 Wardrobe of Balls, for service of the Scottish Queen, from the 

 Tower : 



"Six peeces of tapestry hangings of the ' History of the 

 Passion,' lyned with canvass. 



" Six peeces of tapestry hangings of the ' Story of Ladyes,' 

 lyned with canvass. 



" Seven peeces of hangings of tapestry of the ' Story of 

 Hercules,' lyned." t 



In a subsequent letter to the Lord Treasurer, dated 5th Feb., 

 Sir Ralph Sadlier writes : '' Toching this Q. note for a tent of 

 tapissery doble lynid with canvas, for her chambre, wherein your 

 L. cannot vnderstand her meaning, I indede heard her not speake 

 of any suche tent. But of lynid hangings for her chambre, these 

 small vnsutable peces which she hath now being vnlyned. And 

 for suche, Mr. Somer sent your L. a note of tlie depthe of her 



* Sir Ralph Sadlier's " State Papers," Vol. iii., No. Ixxxj., page 247. 

 t " History of Tutbury," by Sir Oswald Mosley, p. 168. No authority 

 cited. • 



